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TIL Adolph Coors III, heir to the Coors Brewing Company, was murdered in an attempted kidnapping.

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NX5PN TIL that Natale Olivieri created Yoo-hoo after several failed attempts to bottle chocolate drinks that would spoil shortly thereafter. After Olivieri observed his wife canning fruits and vegetables, Olivieri adopted the same heat processing techniques and began officially bottling Yoo-hoo in 1928.
kOEOm TIL The first Third Party in the United States was the Anti-Masonic Party that ran on an anti Free-Mason and anti-elite platform. They got 7.8% of the popular vote in the 1832 election.
7rQoL TIL the movie District 9 was made with the money originally planned to make the video game movie Halo. The decision was made by the studios to not make Halo the day they were to start shooting it so instead Peter Jackson and Neill Blomkamp started making District 9.
D1BgJ TIL that in 1975 George R. R. Martin wrote a short story titled "The Last Superbowl" which depicted the last game of real sports to ever be played due to the rise in popularity of simulated sports. The fictional game took place in January 2016 between the Green Bay Packers and The Hoboken Jets.
Lk8BZ TIL The United States Supreme Court has declared tomatoes are legally vegetables, not fruit. (Nix v. Hedden, 1893)